WVII (Channel 7) reported on energy testing being conducted at the Harold Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Lab in the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. RTI Wave Power of York, Maine, has been testing its sixth generation RTI F2 QD, a 1:50-scale wave energy converter at the facility. The lab is one of […]
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Several University of Maine student-athletes, coaches and athletic trainers were quoted in a Bangor Daily News article on treating concussions in college sports. UMaine’s athletic training staff, which cares for more than 400 student-athletes, focuses on education, prompt evaluation and cautious treatment when it comes to concussions, according to the article. “Medical disqualifications from concussions […]
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Dartmouth News reported on a collaboration between Dartmouth researchers and the University of Maine’s Virtual Environmental and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab. Mark Williams, a professor of film and media studies at Dartmouth, and John Bell, lead applications developer in Dartmouth’s Academic Commons, were awarded a two-year research and development grant from the National Endowment for […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Why we should be hopeful about the Paris climate pact.” The climate accord reached this month in Paris sets an international goal of limiting the increase of the global average temperature, but the accord […]
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Dana Morse, a scientist with Maine Sea Grant and University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for an article about how aquaculture is helping Maine’s oyster industry. According to the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Maine has 60 oyster farms, with another 13 permits pending, and the majority of oysters that […]
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Jake Ward, the University of Maine’s vice president for innovation and economic development, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about the future of the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute’s (FBRI) Technology Research Center. FBRI researchers work on campus to create and commercialize new wood-based bioproducts that they test on a larger scale at […]
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University of Maine doctoral students Amy Kireta and Brett Gerard were quoted in a Current Publishing article on the newly opened Maine Lake Science Center in Bridgton. After seven years of planning by the Lakes Environmental Association, the year-round facility opened in June to attract scientists and educators from Maine and beyond, to conduct lake-related […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “We’ve viewed nature as something to dominate. Now, we live with consequences,” by Doug Allen, a philosophy professor at the University of Maine.
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Robert Lehnhard, an education professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Maine Women article, “The new PE: Less competition, more fitness.” Lehnhard, who studies fitness involving school-aged kids, has found students who progressed through 12 years of school were “significantly less fit when they finished than when they started,” according to the […]
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The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WVII (Channel 7), WABI (Channel 5), WLBZ (Channel 2), WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland), Sun Journal and 92.9 FM The Ticket reported University of Maine Director of Athletics Karlton Creech has announced that Joe Harasymiak will become the next UMaine football head coach, effective Jan. 1. […]
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